SQL Overview V - Monitoring Long Running Jobs
Continuing with his series on monitoring your SQL Servers, David Bird now looks a a way to fin those long running, active jobs.
2011-07-29 (first published: 2010-03-24)
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Monitoring
Database Activity Monitoring Part 1 - An Introduction
We are inundated with new technologies and products designed to help make our organisations safe from hackers and other malcontents. One technology that has gained ground over the past few years is database activity monitoring. It makes sense to protect valuable databases, and by adding an intelligent monitor capable of sniffing out threats an additional level of protection can be gained.
But what is database activity monitoring and why should you care?
2010-03-08
4,755 reads
SQL Server Monitoring Scripts with the DMVs
If you do not have a third party monitoring tool in place, the only way is to constantly monitor SQL Server. To do this without being overly intrusive, we need to rely on the SQL Server DMVs.
2009-10-23
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2009-10-15
3,419 reads
Checking the Job Status on Multiple Servers
Keeping track of the jobs you have running across all your servers can be a challenge these days with fewer and fewer employees. New author Sivakumar Mahalingam brings us an article that shows one way to accomplish this task.
2009-09-07
9,120 reads
Collect SQL Server/Process Information - Quickly
Execute this script to get information on SQL server, databases, processes, memory, buffer, locks, etc.
2011-04-21 (first published: 2009-09-03)
5,669 reads
Saving Time with Proactive DBA Monitoring
Monitoring your SQL Server instances and tracking metrics is an important part of a stable environment. New author Sadequl Hussain brings us a description of his technique for doing this across multiple servers.
2009-07-21
9,901 reads
Monitoring group of Linked Sql Servers from a Sql Server
The main purpose of article is to understand how to monitor group of Linked Sql Servers from a Sql Server.
2009-07-08
2,443 reads
Tracking and Reporting Database Growth
An article from new author Lokesh Gunjugnur that shows how you can set up tracking for database growth on multiple servers and creating custom reports in Excel.
2009-06-02
14,660 reads
Monitor Any Linked Server From SQL 2000
Best way to monitor Excel, Access, SQL Linked Servers from SQL 2000
2008-07-11 (first published: 2008-06-03)
1,629 reads
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Finding Trailing Spaces
I have some data in a SQL Server 2025 database. It looks like this for the dbo.Customer table:
CustomerID CustomerName PreferredName 1 Steve Steve 2 Andy Andy 3 Brian Brian 4 Allan Allan 5 Devin Devin 6 Steve Steve 7 Sally SallyI want to detect which names have a single trailing space. The CustomerName is a varchar() and the PreferredName is a CHAR(). Does this query detect the problem rows?
SELECT
CustomerID,
CustomerName,
PreferredName
FROM Customer
WHERE CustomerName <> RTRIM(CustomerName)
OR PreferredName <> RTRIM(PreferredName); See possible answers